Topics in Kwa Syntax

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aboh, Enoch O. (Editor), Essegbey, James (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 78
• Subjects: Linguistics.; African languages.; Comparative linguistics.; Grammar.; Syntax.; Comparative Linguistics.; African Languages.

Edited by two leading experts on the languages of West Africa, this volume is the very first book to handle a range of topics in the syntax of Kwa, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken by approximately 20 million people in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin and in the extreme southw...

Table of Contents:

• The Phonology Syntax Interface
• The Morphosyntax of the Noun Phrase
• General Properties of the Clause
• The Non-agreeing Subject Resumptive Pronoun in Yoruba
• Relative Clauses in Akan
• C-Type Negation Markers on the Right Edge
• Information Packaging Constructions in Kwa: Micro-variation and Typology
• Inherent Complement Verbs and the Basic Double Object Construction in Gbe
• The Empty Subject Construction: Verb Serialization in Baule.